Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)
1958
Jack St. Clair Kilby at Texas Instruments and, independently, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Arrive at the Integrated Circuit
Kilby demonstrated his device in 1958, Noyce’s design following in 1959. The integrated circuit was a breakthrough in electronics that sparked the miniaturization of the industry. The large size of previous circuit iterations, such as tubes and transistors, caused frequent faulty connections and failures. The entire circuit of a computer (transistors, capacitors, resistors, wires, …) could now be made with silicon and could fit on a single board.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Robert Noyce
Movements
Technology and Art, computer art, Computing Machinery
Filed under
- Ideas
- miniaturization
- Technologies
- integrated circuit, silicon, transistor, vacuum tube
- People
- Jack St. Clair Kilby, Robert Noyce
- Organisations
- Fairchild Semiconductor, Texas Instruments
Echoes across time
- 1642 · Blaise Pascal Builds the Pascaline
- 1673 · Gottfried Leibniz Builds the Calculating Machine
- 1834 · Charles Babbage Develops His Analytical Engine
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- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Chapter 3’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify